The Rough Diamonds (The Saint TV Series)

Plot Summary
The Saint agrees to accompany Alan Uttershaw to the airport with a package of diamonds to be handed over to a security firm. However the real security men are killed and the diamonds handed to impostors. Suspicion falls on Gabriel Linnet, partner of the man to whom the diamonds were to be given, but he is murdered and a suit-case containing £100,000 found in his flat. The Saint overcomes the gangsters sent to subdue him and awaits a meeting with the real mastermind behind the robbery.

Trivia

 * Roger Moore and Douglas Wilmer would share a scene in the Bond movie, "Octopussy."

Miscellaneous

 * About 5 minutes in, when the plane Templar is in is landing at the airport the sound of a jet plane is heard, but the plane is a 4 engine prop plane.
 * At about 41:30 minutes, Simon fires his gun twice but after the first shot, you can clearly see the slide locked open on an empty magazine.

Origin

 * This episode was adapted from the novella "The Black Market" from the 1944 book The Saint on Guard.